The following is based on Natalie Chapman’s keynote address at the most recent EMCR Forum Science Pathways 2018: Diversify your thinking. I love my job. I am fortunate to be able to help some of Australia’s most inspiring researchers and innovators to improve lives...

Swinburne University’s innovative Bioreactor PhD Program was launched only three years ago, with funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), but the benefits of its entrepreneurial focus are already clear to the program’s supervisors, the first...

Earlier this year, I wrote about “Why I left research-and what would have made me and other women stay”. I’ve been blown away by the number of researchers (women and men) who’ve responded by asking how I changed careers successfully. In the halls of academia, many a...

I read a brilliant article this month by my very talented friend Dr Darren Saunders on “What can men do to stem the exodus of women from science?”. Many points in his article I found quite sobering, particularly that women comprise more than half of science PhD...

If you could look 50 years into the future, what would a PhD look like? A new program at Swinburne University is turning the doctoral qualification on its head by embedding students in medical technology companies before they’ve even chosen a research topic. gemaker...

When I received an invitation to have breakfast with the winners of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at the Shine Dome in Canberra I thought to myself “Would it be worth it?” – 6 hours of driving for a 1.5 hour breakfast. In hindsight this was a...